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A Grade 3 winner in his final start at 2, Term of Art has yet to find the winner’s circle in four starts as a 3-year-old.

Most recently, the bay son of two-time Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and 2009 Hall of Famer Tiznow ran dead last for more than a half-mile before coming with a six-wide move when finishing seventh in the Santa Anita Derby (G1) April 8. Runner-up Battle of Midway went on to run third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) May 6 while third-place finisher Royal Mo returns in the Preakness.

Term of Art bobbled at the start of the San Felipe (G2) March 11 but managed to get up for third in a seven-horse field at odds of nearly 63-1. He finished fourth behind Royal Mo in the Robert B. Lewis (G3) Feb. 4 and was fifth in the one-mile Sham (G3) Jan. 7 to open his sophomore campaign.

Unraced outside of California, Term of Art broke his maiden in his third try of 2016 and subsequently found himself in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), where he finished ninth behind juvenile male champion and Preakness contender Classic Empire.

Wheeled back just 22 days later, Term of Art again rallied from well back to post a 1 1/4-length upset when the one-mile Cecil B. DeMille (G3) was rained off the turf and onto a good main track Nov. 27 at Del Mar.

Jockey

Jose Ortiz

A finalist for the Eclipse Award as top jockey of 2016, when he led all North American jockeys with 351 wins and was third with $22.9 million in purse earnings, Jose Ortiz will be riding in his fifth Triple Crown race and first Preakness.

Ortiz finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby and sixth in the Belmont Stakes with Samraat in 2014. He was 18th aboard Upstart in the 2015 Kentucky Derby and 13th behind Creator – ridden by older brother Irad Ortiz Jr. – in the 2016 Belmont.

The 24-year-old native of Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico began riding in his home country in 2011 and came to the U.S. later that year. After several months at Parx Racing, where he rode his first winner in March 2012, Ortiz followed his brother to New York.

Since then, the younger Ortiz has blossomed into a highly sought-after rider, winning six individual meet titles including four straight capped by the coveted Saratoga Race Course crown over his brother in 2016, when he led New York with 319 wins.

The grandson and nephew of jockeys, Ortiz is married to former rider Taylor Rice, the niece of trainer Linda Rice, and they are expecting their first child this summer. He picked up his 1,000th career victory with Moonlight Song in the John Morrissey July 28, 2016.

Owner

Calumet Farm

There have been eight horses to win the Preakness for Calumet Farm, a Preakness record, most recently Oxbow in 2013. Calumet also owns Preakness contender Hence.

Owner Brad Kelley was born in Franklin, Ky. and lives in the Nashville suburb of Franklin, Tenn. He graduated from Franklin-Simpson High School and founded Commonwealth Tobacco, a producer of discounted cigarettes, in 1990.

In 2001, Kelley sold his company for $1 billion and invested in 1.2 million acres of real estate in Texas, Florida and New Mexico. An avid wildlife conservationist, he has spent millions of dollars for the cause.

Bluegrass Hall is the racing arm of the Kelley-owned Hurricane Hall breeding farm in Lexington, Ky.

Just days before the 2012 Kentucky Derby, Kelley announced that he was leasing the 800-acre Calumet Farm to serve as the new home of his Bluegrass Hall and Hurricane Hall racing and breeding operations.

Founded in 1924, the farm was put up for sale by the children of the late Henryk de Kwiatkowski, who bought the farm at auction in 1992 and restored the property.

Trainer

Doug O'Neill

A successful trainer on the southern California circuit for years, Doug O’Neill won with his first Preakness starter, Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another, in 2012. He also finished fifth with Goldencents in 2013 and was third with previously undefeated Derby winner Nyquist in 2016.

O’Neill credits his brother and top assistant, Dennis, with getting him into the training game. He went directly from high school to the track, working for Jude Feld, Hector Palma and Doug Peterson before opening his own stable in 1994 at the age of 26.

Born in Dearborn, Mich., O’Neill gained notoriety for his work with the gelding Lava Man, who he claimed in 2004 for $50,000 and went on to win nearly $5.3 million in purses, including Grade 1 races on turf, dirt and synthetics. Retired in 2010, Lava Man is now a stable pony for O’Neill, and accompanied I’ll Have Another at the Derby and Preakness.

O’Neill has won six Breeders’ Cup races: the 2005 Juvenile with Stevie Wonderboy, the 2006 Sprint with Thor’s Echo, the inaugural Filly & Mare Sprint with Maryfield in 2007, the 2013 Dirt Mile with Goldencents, the 2015 Marathon with Bailoutbobby and 2015 Juvenile with Nyquist. All but Goldencents and Bailoutbobby earned Eclipse Award championships in their respective divisions.

On the day Nyquist won the Del Mar Futurity in California, O’Neill also captured the Hopeful (G1) at Saratoga with Ralis, making him the first trainer to win both races in the same year.